Ricki Tarr
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Ricki Tarr is a British intelligence operative and key informant in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," whose actions help uncover a high-level Soviet mole.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ricki Tarr canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386213 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ricki Tarr Context triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, featuresCharacter, Ricki Tarr]
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A.
Veanne Cox
Veanne Cox is an American actress and singer known for her work in musical theatre, film, and television, often recognized for her comedic and character roles.
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B.
Tracie Thoms
Tracie Thoms is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in projects like "Rent," "Cold Case," and various Broadway productions.
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C.
Diandra Luker
Diandra Luker is a film producer and the former wife of American actor Michael Douglas.
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D.
Tiffany Burress
Tiffany Burress is best known as the wife of former NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress.
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E.
Tracy Stevens
Tracy Stevens is best known as the wife of American basketball coach and executive Brad Stevens.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ricki Tarr Target entity description: Ricki Tarr is a British intelligence operative and key informant in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," whose actions help uncover a high-level Soviet mole.
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A.
Veanne Cox
Veanne Cox is an American actress and singer known for her work in musical theatre, film, and television, often recognized for her comedic and character roles.
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B.
Tracie Thoms
Tracie Thoms is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in projects like "Rent," "Cold Case," and various Broadway productions.
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C.
Diandra Luker
Diandra Luker is a film producer and the former wife of American actor Michael Douglas.
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D.
Tiffany Burress
Tiffany Burress is best known as the wife of former NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress.
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E.
Tracy Stevens
Tracy Stevens is best known as the wife of American basketball coach and executive Brad Stevens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ intelligence operative ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series)
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film) ⓘ |
| affiliation |
British intelligence
ⓘ
The Circus ⓘ
surface form:
the Circus
|
| appearsIn |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
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surface form:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
|
| author | John le Carré ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cold War espionage milieu ⓘ |
| confidesIn |
George Smiley
ⓘ
Peter Guillam ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | John le Carré ⓘ |
| genre | espionage fiction character ⓘ |
| helpsUncover | high-level Soviet mole in British intelligence ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
catalyst for investigation
ⓘ
whistleblower ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence operative
ⓘ
spy ⓘ |
| reportsTo | British intelligence superiors ⓘ |
| role |
field agent
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key informant ⓘ |
| setting | Cold War ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ricki Tarr Description of subject: Ricki Tarr is a British intelligence operative and key informant in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," whose actions help uncover a high-level Soviet mole.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy